Dog Food Recall Spreads Across States

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A single bag of frozen dog food with one bad lot number just triggered a multi-state recall after dogs in several homes got sick from Salmonella.

Story Snapshot

Oma’s Pride recalled one lot of Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe, a 6-pound frozen raw dog food, sold in 11 states.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the recall started after a consumer complaint, then lab tests confirmed Salmonella in the product.
The company says the illnesses reported so far are all in dogs, with no human cases confirmed.
Raw pet food as a category carries a higher known risk of Salmonella than cooked kibble, according to federal health data.

What Triggered The Recall And Where It Spread

Oma’s Pride, based in Avon, Connecticut, pulled one specific lot of its Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe on August 12. The bag size is 6 pounds and the lot number is BB012729.

The FDA says the recall began after a pet owner filed a complaint, prompting the agency to collect a product sample for testing. That sample came back positive for Salmonella, giving regulators the confirmation they needed to act.

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The recalled bags reached store shelves and freezers across 11 states before the problem surfaced. Because frozen raw pet food often gets bought in bulk and stored for weeks, affected bags could still be sitting in home freezers long after purchase.

That is exactly why the FDA moved quickly to publicly identify the lot number instead of waiting for a broader investigation to wrap up.

Dogs Got Sick, And The Company Updated Its Own Story

Oma’s Pride initially flagged possible illness reports tied to the tainted lot, then clarified its language days later. The company’s updated release states plainly that the illnesses occurred only in dogs, with no human illnesses reported to date.

That distinction matters because Salmonella can spread to people who handle contaminated raw pet food, even if the humans in the household never eat it themselves.

Symptoms in dogs from Salmonella exposure typically include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and lethargy. Some infected dogs show no obvious symptoms at all but can still shed the bacteria and expose other pets or people in the home.

Veterinarians recommend that any dog owner who fed the recalled lot and noticed these signs contact a vet promptly, since young, elderly, or immune-compromised animals face higher risk.

Why Raw Frozen Pet Food Keeps Showing Up In Recalls

This is not an isolated incident for the raw pet food category. A review of pet food recalls from 2003 through 2022 found Salmonella accounted for 23 percent of all recalls, and 94 percent of those Salmonella recalls were classified as the most serious tier by regulators.

Raw diets, because they skip the heat-kill step that cooking provides, carry a documented higher risk of contamination than traditional kibble.

Federal health researchers have found Salmonella-positive rates in raw pet food samples ranging from roughly 7 to 9 percent across multiple North American surveys.

Neither the FDA nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends feeding raw diets to pets for exactly this reason. That does not mean every raw food brand is unsafe, but it does mean the entire category demands more careful handling than a bag of dry kibble.

Pet owners who bought Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe should immediately check the bags for lot number BB012729. Anyone with the affected lot should stop feeding it, bag it securely, and either return it to the retailer or dispose of it in a sealed container.

Hands, bowls, and any surfaces that touched the food should be washed thoroughly with hot water and soap to limit the spread of bacteria in the home.

This recall stayed narrow because Oma’s Pride and federal regulators acted on a single consumer complaint rather than waiting for a pattern to emerge.

That kind of fast response is exactly what the recall system is designed to do, and it is worth crediting when it works as intended. Pet owners feeding any raw diet should treat every bag with the same food-safety caution they would use for raw chicken in their own kitchen.